Everything that Jonathon Safran Foer does in my opinion, is flawless. His writing is incredibly beautiful it makes you think that you could never write something as perfect with such emotion quite like he does, he's an extremely inspiring writer.
This book is full of quotes you have probably seen on a lot of indie-hipster blogs because (sorry for the stereotype) they all worship him and for good reasons too.
I heard this book is being made into a movie, if whoever is directing/producing/writing/acting in it screws it up, I'm going to be insanely upset and angry.
Here are a few of my favourite quotes from the book:
"Just because you’re an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn’t love for things to have reasons for why they are."
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”
“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"
“I thought, it’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I’d had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.”
“I’m trying,” Mr. Goldberg said to me, as if only the two of us existed. “Trying what?” I asked, in a voice more concerned than I’d wanted, he took off his glasses again, “Trying to be.”
“I should have drowned us there in the room, ended our suffering, they would have found us floating face-down in two thousand white pages, or buried under the salt of my evaporated tears…”
“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.”
I know that's more than 'just a few' quotes, but this book truly is so beautiful, every sentence is amazing. Enjoy!
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